US9328468B2 - Self-propelled road milling machine with adjustable width scraper blade - Google Patents
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- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
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- E01C23/08—Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface; Devices for repairing or reconditioning the surface of damaged paving; Recycling in place or on the road for roughening or patterning; for removing the surface down to a predetermined depth high spots or material bonded to the surface, e.g. markings; for maintaining earth roads, clay courts or like surfaces by means of surface working tools, e.g. scarifiers, levelling blades
- E01C23/085—Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface; Devices for repairing or reconditioning the surface of damaged paving; Recycling in place or on the road for roughening or patterning; for removing the surface down to a predetermined depth high spots or material bonded to the surface, e.g. markings; for maintaining earth roads, clay courts or like surfaces by means of surface working tools, e.g. scarifiers, levelling blades using power-driven tools, e.g. vibratory tools
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- the invention relates to a self-propelled road milling machine, and a method for processing road surfaces.
- Such road milling machines generally comprise a height-adjustable chassis comprised of front and rear tracked and/or wheeled ground-engaging units as seen in the direction of travel which form the front axle and the rear axle, respectively.
- each axle may feature one or several ground-engaging units.
- the machine frame is supported by the chassis.
- a milling drum housing is arranged which comprises a milling drum mounted to rotate in the milling drum housing.
- a transport conveyor device may be coupled at the milling drum housing by means of a conveyor shoe to transport away the milled material worked off and ejected by the milling drum.
- Such road milling machine is known, for example, from EP 2 011 921 A.
- One front end of the milling drum housing is nearly flush with an outer side of the machine frame, the so-called zero-clearance side, in order to enable milling as close along edges or obstacles as possible.
- the milling drum housing is not adjustable in height relative to the machine frame so that the entire machine weight can be transferred to the milling drum in order to enable high cutting forces and thus a high milling depth.
- the invention advantageously provides, in a road milling machine for the purpose of improving the manoeuvrability and for universal usability, for the scraper blade, laterally in the milling track of the milling drum, to lie resiliently against the milling edges of the milling track, said milling edges extending essentially orthogonal to the road surface.
- the rear end of the milling drum housing as seen in the direction of travel may terminate with a height-adjustable scraper blade, said scraper blade comprising, on both lateral ends, one movable blade element each which, on the bottom side, terminates essentially flush with the scraper blade and is height-adjustable together with the same, in which arrangement the blade elements are adjustable, against an initial tension, parallel to the scraper blade and the milling drum axis for dynamic adjustment of the scraper blade width during the milling operation.
- Such scraper blade with lateral, movable side elements offers the advantage of the scraper width dynamically adjusting to the milling track. This is of advantage in particular when driving through narrow bends.
- the initial tension is preferably generated hydraulically and may be intended to be adjustable also with regard to the degree of the initial tension force.
- the initial tension may be generated mechanically, for example, by means of a spring tension or with a gas spring.
- FIG. 1 a schematic partial view of the self-propelled road milling machine
- FIG. 2 a rear view of the milling drum housing including scraper blade
- FIG. 3 a perspective view of the combined milling drum housing and coupled transport conveyor device seen from below.
- FIG. 1 shows a road milling machine 1 with a machine frame 8 and a chassis 4 with front and rear ground-engaging units 5 , 6 as seen in the direction of travel 31 .
- the ground-engaging units 5 , 6 form a steerable front axle and a steerable rear axle.
- the chassis 4 is connected to the machine frame 8 via lifting columns 7 that enable adjustment of the distance of the machine frame 8 from a road surface 2 .
- Each axle of the chassis comprises no less than one tracked ground-engaging unit 5 , 6 or one wheeled ground-engaging unit.
- a transport conveyor device 18 capable of pivoting in height and slewing in lateral direction may be arranged for transporting away the milled-off milled material.
- a transport device may be arranged at the rear end of the road construction machine at the scraper blade.
- the front and the rear ground-engaging units 5 , 6 of the chassis 4 may be comprised of tracked ground-engaging units or wheels.
- a milling drum 12 is arranged between the ground-engaging units 5 , 6 , said milling drum being supported, with its milling drum axis, in a milling drum housing 10 and being driven via a milling drum drive 14 .
- the milling drum 12 With its one front end 22 , the milling drum 12 extends up to the outer side 26 , 28 of the machine frame 8 depicted in FIG. 1 as the zero-clearance side. On the zero-clearance side, the respective front end 22 of the milling drum is arranged in very close proximity to the outer side of the road milling machine, thus enabling milling very close along road edges or obstacles.
- One height-adjustable side blade 15 each is arranged at the front ends 22 of the milling drum 12 and next to the milling drum housing 10 , said side blade 15 functioning as an edge protection.
- the milling drum 12 may be arranged centrally between the front ground-engaging unit 5 and the rear ground-engaging unit 6 as seen in the direction of travel 31 .
- the milling drum may, for example, be arranged between the rear ground-engaging units 6 .
- the milling drum 12 is provided with tools 13 .
- the milling drum 12 rotates in clockwise direction as seen in the view from the left side of FIG. 1 .
- the milling drum 12 may also be composed of several parts or may be comprised, for example, of no less than one drum tube pushed onto a basic body. Similarly, the milling drum may also be composed of several segments.
- an operator's platform 16 is located which may feature two seats 20 with two steering devices 24 intended for milling flush either along the left side or along the right side of a road. It is understood that an operator's platform movable transverse to the direction of travel with one seat and accompanying steering device 24 may also be used which is movable to the left or right side of the road milling machine 1 as needed.
- the outer side 26 , 28 may feature a cut-out 32 in front of the operator's platform 16 . Said cut-out 32 enables monitoring of the front ground-engaging unit 5 , and thus monitoring of the current steering angle.
- the milling drum housing 10 is shown with a raised scraper blade 64 , with the side blade 15 being also raised to show the position of the milling drum 12 .
- the side blade 15 is attached, on both sides, to the milling drum housing 10 via a dual arrangement of piston-cylinder units 17 , said dual arrangement enabling a particularly large stroke of the piston-cylinder units 17 .
- a conveyor shoe 40 is arranged at the front side of the milling drum housing 10 , said conveyor shoe having the function of accommodating the lower end 44 of the transport conveyor device 18 .
- the tools 13 of the milling drum 12 are arranged helically in circumferential direction, in which arrangement the milling drum 12 exhibits helices of tools 13 running in opposite directions which transport the milled-off material to the ejection opening and convey the same from the ejection opening onto the transport conveyor device 18 .
- FIG. 2 shows a rearward perspective view of the milling drum housing 10 with a scraper blade 64 being arranged at the same which is adjustable in height by means of piston-cylinder units 65 .
- the scraper blade 64 may additionally be pivoted upwards in the event that the tools 13 on the milling drum 12 must be accessible.
- the scraper blade 64 exhibits, on its side facing the milling drum 12 and at its lateral outer edges, one movable blade element 74 each which can be pressed against the milling edge 70 ( FIG. 1 ) extending orthogonal to the road surface 2 in the milling track 68 by means of a resilient pre-tensioning device 76 .
- the lower edge 78 of the laterally movable blade element 74 terminates flush with the lower edge of the scraper blade 64 .
- the blade elements 74 are adjustable in height together with the scraper blade 64 .
- the resilient pre-tensioning devices 76 may generate the initial tension in different ways. In the embodiment of FIG. 2 , the pre-tensioning devices 76 are depicted as piston-cylinder elements which can be pre-tensioned hydraulically.
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